Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select sociology graduate students.
Jason Mark Alexander
Email: jasonma@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Decolonial Social Movements, Transindigenous Futures, Japan-Burma Relations, Demilitarization, Environmental Justice
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Jake Atienza
Email: ajha@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Power, Political Dynasties, Colonialism, Mining, Political Ecology, Natural Resources, Qualitative Methods, Video/Sound as Evidence
Advisor: Sun-Ki Chai
Omar Bird
Email: birdo@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Stress and Mental Health, Racism and Institutions, Intersectional Life Course Analysis, Research Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Penny-Bee Kapilialoha Bovard
Email: pennybee@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Feminist and Oceanic Pedagogies and Methodologies. Sociology of Gender and Sport. Feminist Criminology
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Austin (Keaupuni) Davis
Email: davisaus@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Hawaiian Sociology, Indigenous Paradigm, Argo-food Systems, Sts Studies, Asia-pacific Relations, Mixed Methods
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Rachel Engel
Email: rengel@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Racism, Colorism, Globalization, Southeast Asia
Advisor: Nandita Sharma
Christielove Espinosa
Email: ckee@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Indigenous Sociology, Intersectionality, Sociology of Education, Class Conflict and Inequalities
Advisor: Jennifer Darrah
Clarice Handoko
Email: chandoko@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Media, Big Tech, Social Psychology, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Cultural Studies, Arts Management
Advisor: Le Lin
Rumika Hillyer
Email: rumika@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Food, Class, Identity, Nikkei Brazilian, Japan
Advisor: Patricia Steinhoff
Jaeho Kook
Email: jkook@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Globalization, Capitalism, Institutionalization
Advisor: Manfred Steger
Keith Scott
Email: keithgs@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Multiculturalism, Race and Racism, Ethnic Nationalism, Neoliberalism and Inequality, Social Movements, Korea and East Asia
Advisor: Patricia Steinhoff
Aya Shirayama
Email: ayashira@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Ethnicity, Identity, Diaspora, Food, Indigenous Sociology, Okinawans, Asia-Pacific, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Yusuke Tsukada
Email: yusukets@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Mental Health, Sociology of Teaching, Japan, Quantitative Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Allison Vande Kappelle
Email: allisonv@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Health and Wellness, Food Insecurity, Housing Insecurity, Globalization
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Margaret (Margie) Walkover
Email: walkover@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Knowledge, Public Sociology, Complexity, Globalization, Climate Change, Population Health, Mental Health/Substance Use, Community Resilience
Advisor: Manfred Steger
Mark Willingham, Jr
Email: mlw237@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Social Psychology, Community-Based Participatory Research, Public Health, Criminology
Advisor: Wei Zhang
Lynne Wolforth
Email: wolforth@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, Maternal & Infant Health, Quantitative Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski